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Brief author info: Bayard Rustin (1910-1987) American civil rights leader Organizer of 1953 Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott; planner of 1963 March on Washington. Labor organizer.

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There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts.

Bayard Rustin

When you're wrong, you're wrong. But when you're right, you're wrong anyhow.

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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

- Helen Keller

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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

- Mark Twain

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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

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